| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 210, 2019
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays 2018 (UHECR 2018)
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| Article Number | 06006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Futur Detectors | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921006006 | |
| Published online | 17 May 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921006006
Search for Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays with the TUS orbital telescope and comparison with ESAF
1
Department of Physics, University of Turin Italy
2
National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) OATo, Turin Italy
3
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow Russia
4
Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Laboratoire Lagrange, Nice – France
* e-mail: bertaina@to.infn.it
Published online: 17 May 2019
The Tracking Ultraviolet Setup (TUS) detector was launched on April 28, 2016 as a part of the scientific payload of the Lomonosov satellite. TUS is a pathfinder mission for future space-based observation of Extreme-Energy Cosmic Rays (EECRs, E > 5x1019 eV) with experiments such as K-EUSO. TUS data offer the opportunity to develop strategies in the analysis and reconstruction of the events which will be essential for future space-based missions. During its operation, TUS has detected about 80 thousand events which have been subject to an offline analysis to select among them those that satisfy basic temporal and spatial criteria of EECRs. A few events passed this first screening. In order to perform a deeper analysis of such candidates, a dedicated version of ESAF (EUSO Simulation and Analysis Framework) code as well as a detailed modelling of TUS optics and detector are being developed.
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